Grammar Training

London schools are racing ahead of the rest of the country because courses are offered to address CPD needs. Kreative Futures is now offering quality courses outside London so your school can rise above the national average whilst simultaneously inspiring children to love writing.

The course will cover in-depth grammatical knowledge necessary for KS1 and 2 as well as innovative ideas on how to teach it: making it meaningful and easy to learn. This will lead into the development of sentences and then how to teach longer pieces of writing, whilst maintaining meaning.

With the introduction of a KS1 test, it is even more important to equip staff with the knowledge and know-how to engage the children in grammar very early on.

"Yet another fantastic inset with Leysa, which provided fun and engaging ways of teaching grammar and punctuation. When you are fortunate enough to attend an inset with Leysa Henderson, you know that you will leave with new knowledge, innovative ideas for delivering the curriculum and an enthusiasm to use what you have learned in the classroom."Julie McDonagh (Grange Primary School)

Grammar

Grammar is a topic the children love to learn and apply to their writing. Once a teacher is armed with grammatical knowledge, it is easier for them to plan each genre. Being able to identify the grammatical features within a text, allows them to weave in the grammar needed by the children to write accurately and actually make sense.

Benefits of Teaching Grammar

Children know how to write and feel more confident. It reduces the number of reluctant writers

Teachers and pupils can identify grammatical errors and understand to move onto the next step

It can be used alongside spelling and any vocabulary work, consequently reinforcing the meaning, giving pupils a chance to rehearse their spellings.

Can use grammar to write very effective poetry

Helps with guided reading. Children can make educated guesses at words if they understand word order and word class.

It teaches people how to write; this will raise standards of writing and reading in your school both in Literacy and across the curriculum.

Teachers will be able to identify grammar needs for each genre enabling them to plan effectively and children to write successfully.

It develops the teacher’s knowledge to create links

Teaching of grammar will be more inspirational and accurate.

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Course Content:

Day 1

Collective, abstract, compound, pronouns, concrete and proper nouns

Expanded noun phrases

Prepositions/prepositional phrases

Adverbs

Determiners

Quantifiers

Fronted adverbials

Modal and auxiliary verbs - a complex subject which is difficult to teach children the difference

Subject - Verb agreement

Finite verbs and infinitive verb

Verbs - past, present and future

Omission and possession apostrophes

Games, poetry and whole class activities will be given to take straight into the classroom.

Identifying word class depending on where it is in the sentence

Day 2

Subjunctive mood

Cohesive devices

Games, poetry and whole class activities to take straight in to the classroom.

Sentences - simple, compound, complex

Main and subordinate clauses

Conjunctions - co-ordinating and subordinating

Use of colons and semi-colons

Hyphens, dashes, commas and brackets

Relative clauses

Sentence builders

Phrase or clause?

Personification

Metaphors

Passive and active sentences

Different ways to open a sentence

Ideas on how to lead into writing

Dates

TBA

How to book

Please complete the Booking Form and return to officekreativefutures@gmail.com

All payment needs to be paid prior to the course.

Cost

One person: £280 + VATTwo people: £540 + VAT

Location

Wokefield ParkGoodboys LaneMortimerReading, West BerkshireRG7 3AHThen venue is 10 minutes from Junction 11 of the M4.

As a Primary Literacy consultant, many lesson have been observed, countless medium term plans evaluated and a multitude of books moderated, the over riding theme is the teacher’s lack of grammatical comprehension.Understandably so considering how complicated it is. This means that grammar is either being taught incorrectly or they are not making vital links with the writing and the reading.A common mistake in descriptive writing (a national curriculum descriptor) can be that the children’s work is littered with too many adjectives, whereas there are so many other ways to teach it e.g. figurative language, pre and post modifying the noun are to name but a few.Poetry is ignored, as teachers fear it, yet it lends itself to grammar, figurative language and sentence rehearsal. But more importantly children love it.From outside the sphere of the literacy world, a noun is deemed to be a thing, a verb a doing word, an adjective describes a noun and an adverb clarifies a verb. This is just the very basics. Within the realms of nouns, there are 6 different types of nouns and within that there are 6 different types of pronouns. Noun phrases presents yet another complexity. Verbs can masquerade as a noun or an adjective; adverbs don’t just end in –ly. Teachers need the knowledge to be able to explain clearly why something happens grammatically. This will then avoid confusion and frustration from the children.

INSET Testimonials

'Leysa delivered a History INSET across KS1 and 2. It was very well prepared and the teachers had a great day. Leysa’s enthusiasm for the subject shone through and her key messages of enjoyment and rigour will make a massive difference to our teaching and learning in History and other subjects.‘ Graham Beeden (Headteacher of Grange Primary School - South Ealing)

'Course delivery was brilliant! Very supportive environment. Course leader interested in tailoring to individual needs. Great! The course has increased my personal confidence and knowledge of teaching and understanding. Brilliant resources which will have a great impact when feeding back and providing support for staff.' Gurpaul Dhillon from Alfred Sutton Primary School

'The course raised my confidence with teaching Year 6 in September. It has given clear ideas and explanations to support me in delivering staff meetings and grammar support. There are lots of ideas to try with my class. I feel a lot more positive about the benefits of teaching grammar.' Louise O'nions from Alfred Sutton Primary School

'Thank you very much! The course was engaging and open to all questions and misconceptions, I felt valued as a participant and learner.' Katrin Sweeting from the Coombes C of E Primary School

'I have a better understanding of what to teach and how. I now have plenty of ideas for activities to do in class. Fantastic, very helpful. Thank you.' Stacey Joy from Holyport C of E (A) Primary School

'The course has really helped improve my understanding of grammar to be able to teach it in a child friendly and engaging way. It has also taught me that it is important to start with really basic concepts.' Iglica Georgieva from Holyport C of E (A) Primary School

'The course covered what I wanted to achieve - to feel more confident in my understanding and to apply new/clearer knowledge to my teaching. It was a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. I am now able to identify the next steps in a child's writing. It was a lovely venue and great to share ideas. Thank you Leysa.'Emma Richardson from Frogmore Junior School